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O Brother Where Art Thou?

George Clooney leads the Soggy Bottom Boys on a magical tour of Thirties Mississippi, taking in good ol’ Southern traditons such as the KKK, chain gangs, baby-faced bank robbers and alluring sirens.

(2000)

The Color Purple

Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg shine in Spielberg’s moving story about the hardships faced by poor black women in the South.

(1985)

Gone With the Wind

As Atlanta burns, Rhett tells Scarlett: ‘You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the old South fall on night’.  That’ll be the South of cavaliers and cotton fields, then.  Fiddle-de-dee.

(1939)

Crossroads

Teenage Delta blues fan Ralph Macchio, on a quest to find Robert Johnson’s ‘lost song’, teams up with Johnson’s pal Willie Brown and faces down the Devil at the crossroads.

(1986)

Driving Miss Daisy

Oscar-winning feelgood movie set in Georgia starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.

(1989)

Fried Green Tomatoes

Kathy Bates is the bored Alabama housewife inspired by elderly Jessica Tandy in a cross-generational romantic tale about the search for the meaning of life in the perfect sauce.

(1991)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Gregory Peck played a career blinder as principled Southern lawyer Atticus Finch.

(1962)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Liz Taylor smoulders in the film of the Tennessee Williams play, charting tensions bubbling beneath polite Mississippi society.

(1958)

Mississippi Burning

Southern lawman Gene Hackman and northern idealist Willem Dafoe clash over the murder of three civil rights workers.  Based on a true story.

(1988)

Sweet Home Alabama

Reese Witherspoon is sexy as a sweet Southern belle caught up in a love triangle.

(2002)

  

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